About this opportunity
IBM Computing lists this Confluent - Staff Software Engineer - WarpStream opportunity in workfromhome, Texas. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Introduction
At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.
Your role and responsibilities
WarpStream is an Apache Kafka compatible data streaming platform built directly on top of object storage with zero local disks. It’s delivered to customers as a BYOC‑style offering. The WarpStream team is responsible for this product offering from top to bottom, and as a Senior Engineer you’ll do everything from working on the storage engine running in the Agents, improving the scalability of our multi‑tenant control plane, implementing new features like transactions, active‑active multi‑regions clusters, and even write some HTML/Javascript for our developer console. We’re a small team of You will have an opportunity to solve complex distributed systems problems at scale. You will build services that can operate across different cloud service providers like AWS, GCP, and Azure. You’ll be on‑call for all of it.
The WarpStream team is fully remote and geographically distributed, currently we have engineers in: Spain, France, Canada, Ireland, and the USA.
What You Will Do:
Independently drive execution of complex technical projects end to end.
Build mission‑critical backend services that deliver value to our customers. You will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing and operationalizing high performance, scalable, reliable and resilient services.
Troubleshoot and debug technical issues inside a deep and complex technical stack that includes microservices, containers, and virtualization.
Ensure operational readiness of the services and meet the availability and performance SLA commitments to our customers.
Required technical and professional expertise
5+ years industry experience designing, building, scaling and supporting backend systems in production with a solid grasp on good software engineering practices such as code reviews, deep focus on quality, and documentation
Strong programming and algorithmic skills. Proficiency in a major programming language, e.g. Java, Go, C / C++, Python, etc
Deep curiosity and enthusiasm for distributed systems and storage systems
Strong focus on project delivery and communication skills
Experience in driving operational excellence for large production services
A strong sense of customer centricity, teamwork, technical leadership and mentorship and are excited about team and company success
Preferred technical and professional experience
Proven track record of delivering large-scale, highly available, high quality systems
Hands‑on technical expertise in large scale systems engineering or distributed systems
On‑call experience handling critical systems
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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Worksite address
workfromhome, TX, 75215, US
Who can apply
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